It is interesting when you go into the Prancing Pony and everyone is normal except for the one dangerous-looking fellow in the corner. Who is he? What does he want? Why does he seem so interested in a group of hobbits?
If you go into the Prancing Pony and the bartender is a half-kobold Oathbreaker paladin who has been polymorphed into a giant frog, and she is serving drinks to a roudy group of Dragonborn bard/monks, and there is a group of trolls performing a human sacrifice in one corner of the room when suddenly a portal to the abyss opens and fey start pouring out into the tavern, and before you can say "what were fey doing in the abyss?" a purple polka dot skeletal dragon lich bursts through the wall and starts eating everyone... well, that doesn't actually make the story richer and more interesting for a lot of people. It just makes it campy.
There is only one reaction that suits this scenario.
“ I feel like I'm Han Solo, and you're Chewie, and she's Ben Kenobi, and we're in that f***ed-up bar.” —-Jay
